So far in this series, everything we have discussed has been concerned with what happens inside the ACI fabric. At some point however, you will want to connect your fabric to the outside world, either at layer 2 or layer 3. In this part, we’ll take a look at how to set up layer 3 connectivity from ACI to an external router, using a construct called the Layer 3 Outside.

Let’s first take a look at the topology I’m going to discuss in this post: